Account Director, Corporate - Life Sciences

alphasense; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a high-impact Account Director to own and expand relationships with our most complex Fortune 1000 accounts in the Corporate Life Sciences sector. You will be the primary contact for renewals, adoption, and growth, collaborating with account executives to identify new opportunities.

You will advocate for customers inside AlphaSense, gather value stories, drive proactive outreach, and ensure clients realize maximum impact from our AI-powered market intelligence platform.

Job description

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents - including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com . Come join us.

About the Team:

Our Customer Success team is made up of Account Directors and Customer Success Managers who are passionate about helping our clients succeed. We partner with a diverse range of organizations, from Fortune 1000 companies to some of the largest financial institutions globally.

As a team, we are committed to providing value to our clients. We take a consultative approach to solve challenges through our product, ensuring our customers have the right data to make informed decisions. We focus on retaining customers, maximizing product usage, and collaborating with the sales team to uncover growth opportunities.

About the Role:

We're looking for a high-impact Account Director to own and expand relationships with our most complex and high-value accounts within the Corporate Life Sciences sector. You'll be the primary point of contact for a book of Fortune 1000 accounts-driving renewals, adoption, and growth. In this role, you'll be expected to collaborate with account executives, identifying new business opportunities to help expand our footprint within each client account.

While key performance indicators include retention rate and the identification of growth opportunities, the responsibilities of Account Directors go much deeper. The team also extracts a wealth of knowledge from our clients, bringing that internally to product, marketing and sales teams in order to maximize the effectiveness of our business' strategy and communication.

What You'll Do:

• Forecast and maximize retention rate across your book of business
• Increase and drive adoption of AlphaSense solutions into other business units of existing clients to uncover new opportunities, exceeding monthly, quarterly and annual revenue goals
• Identify revenue at risk in order to best position the company to prevent churn
• Collaborate with Account Executives to identify growth opportunities within the book of business
• Understand the ins and outs of the business, roles, responsibilities, projects, performance metrics, etc. within our client base in order to more effectively: 1) communicate with users, 2) communicate with decision makers, 3) identify white space, 4) partner with AE to craft most compelling messaging to prospective users
• Cultivate relationships with users and key stakeholders to ensure AlphaSense is viewed as a business partner rather than vendor
• Hold Business Reviews with key stakeholders
• Consistent proactive outreach with material and information that's relevant for our user base
• Serve as our boots on the ground and physical presence within each client (floor walks, lunch and learns, etc.)
• Serve as both the advocate for AlphaSense to the client, and the client advocate within AlphaSense
• Acquire value stories and product feedback from clients. Circulate internally to assist with product development, marketing, sales efforts

Who You Are:

• Relationship-driven: You have a strong ability to develop instant rapport with new people and you've demonstrated success at managing and growing relationships within Fortune 1000 clients
• A subject matter expert: You excel at what you do and know how to succeed within your role -- this includes both internal and external relationship management as well as strong business acumen and commitment to effective processes and tactics
• Knowledgeable and experienced in Life Sciences: Experience working with clients in the Life Sciences industry, including Pharma, Biotech, Medical devices and diagnostics - additional bonus for familiarity with competitive intelligence, business development and clinical and commercial strategy workflows.
• Energetic and creative: You possess a natural intellectual curiosity with the ability to learn and adapt quickly
• You understand our business: We are a rapidly growing SaaS company and are incredibly passionate about our product. We are looking for individuals who understand best practices for client engagement within a SaaS environment;
• Committed to delivering results: You set the example for grit, work ethic, initiative, enthusiasm and c